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Boom: Green Is The New Blue

Spring was in full bloom as daffodils poked out of the ground and leaves were growing on trees, bringing life and colour back into the world. Sonic, of course, decided to make the most of such a beautiful time of year. He ran along the edge of the forests and the beaches that surrounded the small village, enjoying the early morning breeze as it blew through his quills. Crisp and refreshing.

He arrived at Tails' house where the gang had already gathered to hang out. The three of them were talking amongst themselves before they smiled up at Sonic in greeting. Wait…only three of them?

"Where's Amy?" Sonic asked, seeing no sign of the pink hedgehog.

Sticks shrugged. "I dunno. She's been acting pretty shifty lately. I came to see her this morning and she said she was late for something and ran off. If you ask me I'd say she's been brainwashed by those brain parasites that the government has unleashed."

"Right." Sonic replied, ignoring that last part. Now that he thought about it, Amy had been acting kinda weird lately. She often skipped out on hanging out with them and whenever they asked her what she had been up to, she always got really awkward. What had gotten into her?

"Well, what about that guy?" Knuckles interjected.

Sonic froze. "What guy?"

"I saw her while I was on my way here, walking into the market with an orange hedgehog. They seemed pretty close. Maybe an old friend?"

Sonic's teeth clamped tightly shut as his hands balled into fists. "Oh, really?"

His friends looked up at him with concern.

"Are you ok there Sonic?" Tails asked, worriedly.

Sonic took a deep calming breath and plastered a fake smile on his face to reassure his friends. "Oh, I'm fine."

Wait, why wasn't he fine? Why did this bother him so much? Sonic couldn't figure out why this whole thing made him want to punch something…preferably this guy's face. Maybe this guy was working for Eggman? If that was the case then he'd better check on them. Better safe than sorry right? He didn't want that slime-ball hurting Amy. If he did, then that would be the last thing that guy would ever do.

"I've gotta go." Sonic suddenly announced and sped out of the door before his friends would ask why.

He sped his way to the market place and looked around for any signs of anything pink. His eyes scanned the crowd of shoppers as they made their way about their daily lives. His ear twitched when he heard a familiar giggle and he immediately jumped behind a barrel of apples. He peeked around it and he felt his heart leap into his throat at the sight before him. Amy was walking hand in hand with an orange hedgehog that Sonic had never seen before. His eyes were brown, his quills slightly messy and he wore a brown leather jacket and leather boots. Sonic wanted to yell and scream, storm over there and yank that guy away from her. His eyes locked on their conjoined hands. Amy was in…a secret relationship?

Sonic growled lowly to himself before he decided to follow them, making sure to stay a safe distance away where they wouldn't notice his presence. They looked like they were just shopping around with the guy pulling her into various different areas. It felt like something was clawing at Sonic's chest as his eyes kept zooming in on their clasped hands. He couldn't understand why it bothered him so much and figured that if he was getting a bad vibe off this guy, then it couldn't be good. What if Eggman has employed this creep to lure Amy in as a method to attack both her and himself? He needed to get Amy away from him. Then she'd be safe.

But how was he going to approach them without looking weird? If he drew attention to himself then this guy could alert Eggman and Amy could get hurt.

He continued following and watching them as they stopped by a small band that was playing in the village centre and began dancing along with some other couples who were also enjoying the beat together. Great. In this crowd, this guy could abduct Amy and no one would ever notice. It was a good job he had followed them there. Sonic frowned as the guy pulled Amy uncomfortably close to his body. Amy seemed surprised, but didn't seem to be trying to fight it as she seemed to be trying to tell him something.

Sonic continued gritting his teeth and just before his teeth were about to shatter in his mouth, his wrist communicator began beeping. Sonic glared at the creep one last time before he stared down at his watch and answered the call.

"Sonic, where are you?" Tails' voice asked.

"I'm in the village centre." Sonic replied hoping that whatever Tails had to say was quick.

"Good because Eggman is about to attack any minute!" Tails shrieked. "He came here looking for you, but when you weren't here he left to search for you."

"Got it." Sonic muttered before hanging up on Tails.

He needed to warn Amy somehow. He needed to get her away from that creep. The song changed and the beat picked up and the creep began spinning Amy around. She laughed awkwardly which seemed a little odd to Sonic. Amy loved to dance so why did she look so uncomfortable? He gasped as he realise the creep was probably forcing himself on her. He had to rescue her.

Without thinking, Sonic quickly ran over and forced himself into the middle of them. He felt like his body was on auto-pilot as he glared menacingly at the orange hedgehog, a weird, unpleasant emotion churning in his stomach at the thought of this guy touching Amy.

The two of them gasped and Amy glared at Sonic whilst the orange creep stared at the hedgehog between them in confusion.

"Sonic?! What are you doing?" Amy hissed as she and the creep fought to remain in contact with each other's hands.

Sonic smirked at her. "Well, you know what they say: it takes three to tango."

Amy sighed and frowned at him. "That's it takes two to tango." She corrected him in a frustrated tone.

Sonic pretended to think for a moment. "Hmm, I think you're right." He grinned again before grabbing hold of the creep's leather jacket and easily tossing him to one side. The creep squealed in shock before he crash landed into a pile of crates. People around them gasped and Sonic heard the creep groan in pain. Good.

"Sonic!" Amy gasped as he grabbed hold of her waist and hand, waltzing her away from the scene with a proud smirk on his face.

Amy tried to push him away and break out of his hold, but Sonic clung on, desperate to get her to safety. He pulled her behind a large wooden building before he let go of her and looked at her in confusion as she glared up at him, folding her arms impatiently. He thought she'd be grateful for getting her away from that creep.

"What do you think you're doing?" Amy demanded.

"Rescuing you!" Sonic stated as if it was obvious.

"From what?"

"From that creep!"

"Huh?"

Before Amy had the time to question him properly, the booming sound of a loud explosion filled the air along with the screams of terrified villagers. Sonic and Amy exchanged a worried glance before running around from the back of the building to see Eggman and a small army of robots marching into the centre of the village.

"Hand Sonic over and nobody gets hurt." Eggman ordered as villagers ran away, screaming in terror.

"Over here Egghead!" Sonic yelled.

Eggman turned his attention towards Sonic and Amy behind him and smiled down at them.

"So there you are you little rodent. I've been itching to try out my latest robots against you." Eggman smirked as the robots all turned to the two hedgehogs.

"Oh yeah? Bring it on!" Sonic goaded and the robots immediately began firing at him.

The bullets had a hard time keeping up with him as he circled them and Amy pulled her hammer out, smashing the robots to pieces before Sonic joined in. Together, defeating the robots was too easy and they both stood back to back and smirked up at an annoyed looking Eggman when they were finished.

"You were saying?" Amy taunted.

Eggman groaned. "T-that was just a warm up. I'll be back! With bigger and better robots that will squash you like the vermin you are. You'll see!" He yelled as he quickly flew away.

Sonic and Amy smiled and high fived each other before Amy was swept into the arms of an orange hedgehog.

"Oh Amy, thank goodness you're safe." He nuzzled her and Amy smiled awkwardly.

Sonic felt like he was on auto-pilot again as he pulled Amy out of the creep's grip.

"Dude, what is your problem?" The orange hedgehog demanded.

"Yeah Sonic, what's gotten into you?" Amy asked as she folded her arms again, waiting for Sonic's explanation.

"You've been dating him in secret?" Sonic yelled at her, standing in front of the creep to block his view of her.

Amy sighed, looking down guiltily and Sonic's angry expression melted into one of sorrow as her silence confirmed it. It felt like someone had reached inside his chest and was squeezing his heart painfully hard. So he may have been a bit paranoid when he thought the creep worked for Eggman, but it looked like Amy had lied to them all…lied to him. He knew he was being stupid. He knew it shouldn't bother him. Amy's love life was nothing to do with him. So why did it hurt so badly? Why did he feel like he'd been betrayed? Sonic began to feel queasy as he began to question his sanity.

"You know what?" Sonic cursed as his voice cracked slightly. Amy's eyes snapped back up to stare at him in alarm at the sudden amount of emotion in his voice. "Forget it."

He then did what he did best; he ran.

Sonic didn't know how long he had been sitting at the top of the tree, but as the sun began to set over the ocean, he realised that he had been up here for hours. He felt so confused and mixed up. It bothered him that Amy was dating someone, but he didn't want it to bother him at the same time. He knew it shouldn't, but it did. He just thought the creep was coming onto her. Nope. Amy was a willing participant. Again, why should that bother him?

He jumped slightly as he heard the branches underneath him shake slightly as weight was applied to it. He looked down to see a familiar pink hedgehog stood on the branch underneath his. She looked like she was debating whether to jump up to his branch, but seemed to decide better of it before biting her lip and looking away awkwardly.

"So, this is where you've been hiding?"

Sonic frowned. "Who said I was hiding?" He said a little more harshly than he had intended.

Amy sighed. "What's wrong Sonic? You were acting weird this morning and you're acting weird again now?"

Sonic didn't reply, sulking like a child as he stared at the calm ocean waves that glowed dimly in the sunset. The orange reminded him of that creeps fur and he gritted his teeth again and gripped onto the branches harder.

"Sonic, why did you push Matt over? You could've really hurt him." Amy asked gently, sensing how upset Sonic seemed to be.

Sonic frowned. "I thought he was coming onto you."

"Well, yeah I suppose he was." Amy replied. "We were dating after all. Boyfriends and girlfriends usually do that kind of stuff to each other?"

Sonic sighed. "Amy it doesn't matter. Just go and have fun with Matt."

Amy's eyes widened at the hostility in his voice before they casted downward in sadness.

"We broke up."

Sonic's head looked down to face her for the first time.

"What?"

"I broke up with him."

Sonic tried to repress the feelings of absolute joy that this news brought him. It took all of his efforts not to smile. Why should that please him so much? Uhhh, Amy did weird things to him.

"Oh." Was all Sonic could manage to respond with.

"I'm sorry I lied to you all." Amy apologised, trying to get more of a response out of him.

"Forget about it." Sonic murmured.

"I didn't even really like him that much." Amy explained as she leaned against the tree trunk underneath where Sonic was sat, still gripping the branches tighter than necessary. "I think I just dated him because I wanted someone to like me. Now I realise that it wasn't fair for me to do that. I've being trying to break up with him all day. I was about to explain to him when you came in and interrupted."

Sonic smirked as he still remembered the creep's face as he pushed him backwards. Luckily, Amy couldn't see from up here.

"He understood, but I still feel bad." Amy sighed. "I just…wasn't the one for him."

Amy let out a small shriek as Sonic jumped down to the branch that she was stood on before relaxing as he smiled at her.

"All this mushy emotional stuff is making me hungry." Sonic complained as Amy rolled her eyes. "Do you wanna, I don't know, get a burger or something?" He scratched the back of his face awkwardly.

Amy smiled happily. "I'd love to."

Both hedgehogs jumped down and ran close together through the forest, the sound of their laughter filling the evening air. Sonic may not have quite understood his sudden irrational thoughts today, but he did know one thing. Being around Amy made him happy. Not only was she a great partner in battle, but a great and understanding friend.

Yet, as they ran together, he missed Amy turning her head to gaze at his face with a knowing smirk on her face.

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